Connecticut western news., 1887-07-13
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

Dulld three new war Resseis aC a cos' oi S@,oVo- GOO each.
 A farmhouse at Ardnahoc, Buteshire, Scot land, was burned, and three women and four men servants were incmcrated. A royal proclamation has been published extending pardon to ali deserters from the British land forces in commemoration of the Queens jubilee.
 Great damage has been caused in the prov ince of New Brunswick by thunder and light ming storms. Several persons were killed, two mills burned and many buildings blown down.
 The Ameer of Afghanistan has nailed proclamation on the gates of Candahar under nc ath t. e Koran, offering free pardon and two years remission of taxes to all rebels who sur- render and renew their allegiance to the Ameer.
 While the steamship City of Rome was at Queenstown Jane and Maggie Paynter, chil- dren, wandered unnoticed through the gang way and upon the mail tender, and they were not discovered until itwas too late to put them aboard the steamship again. They were on their way from Liverpool with their mother to join their father in America. They were taken to the workhouse.
 The French Chamber of Deputies has postponed the mobilization of the French army until next year on the ground of econ- omy.
 There is fresh outburst of bitter contro- versy between thu newspapers representing professional patriotism ill Germany and in France. Correspondents from Germany declare that the feeling against France IS growing in Germany, and will soon burst out into war, but the correspondents say that every little while Germany for year past has wanted to fight France, but Bismarck tas not heen ready. It is thought war must come when Bismarck makes up his mind that the moment has arrived, but he will not make up his mind for some time yet. Meanwhile both sides go on preparing, and the longer it is delayed the bigger and fercer the war will be.
 The plan of the German Government to provide for workmen in their old age will be applied at first only to industrial workmen, of which 1t is estimated tho number Is {, ,25l ,OOO The minimum pension to be allowed is 120 marks yearly, the State, employers and work men each contributing One-third of the pen sion fund, which will be a tax on each individ- nal of three marks yearly, All worhmen over ,; fifty years of age when the bill is passed will be excluded from it's benefits
 Gen. Boulanger made an imposing en- trance into Clermont Ferrand. The General rode handsome black charger. All along the route he was greeted with shouts of ''Vive Boulanger." He said: s'Yes; l am French man and Republican, and I am deeply in- tcrcsted in the welfare of the army and the greatness of the country"
 There was rioting at Valencia, Spain, in consequence of an attempt to collect the octroi tax. The military fired into Q crowd, killing four persons.
 At & national plebiscite in Switzerland trree-fourths of the voters cast their ballots in favor of bill to protect inventions.
 There have been forty cases of cholera and fifteen deaths from the disease among the troop at Catania, Sicily. Three Catanians have died of cholera at Balermo.
 Mir Frank Hugh O'Donnell has commenced Q libel action again the London Times, claiming damages because of charges made against him by that journal in its articles on ''Parnel ism and Crime"
 The government of Italy is preparing measure to exclude foreigners from civil ser- vice examinations.
 Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador in Paris laid the foundation stone of the Victoria Chapel in the Rue des Bassins in honor of the Queens jubilee. The Bishop of Tennessee of1iciated. United States Minister McLane and many Amer jeans were present at the ceremony
 Six thousand people packed the Academy of Music and Irving Hall, N. Y., City, ill honor of Dr. Edward McGlynn, and to show their adherence to his fortunes despite the action of Rome in accommodating him from the bene- fits of the Church. Henry George and other we'll known speakers were present, and the occasion was one long ovation to the priest.
 Burglars robbed the post office at Holland Patent, Pa.
 Two more deaths occurred from yellow fever in Key West.
 "A Missouri Bald Knobber, indicted for mur- der and run down in Arkansas took refuge in a cotton gin, in which he mortally wounded two of his captors and was himself fatally wounded.
 "A suack doctor, by hypodermic injection, caused the death of an estimable young lady in Indiana.
 The yacht Mystery, loaded to the gunwales Island, N Y. and only thirteen of the forty persons on board are kn wn to have been res cued.
 The Vienna Tdg6ldh says Germany, Aus tria and Italy are negotiating for still closer alliance than the one at present existing be- tween those countries.
 MT. Gladstone, according to the London Stdndard, is prepared to recommend Sir G. O. Trevelyn as Parliamentary candidate for the Bridgeton division of Glasgow.
 -Adviccs from China state that rebellion took place at Chang-Chow, near Shanghai The uprising was suppressed by the authorities, and 90 of the conspirators were executed. A number of secret societies also rebelled in the province of Kian3-Si. A military officer and II soldiers, who were implicated in the rebel lion, were captured and beheaded.
 Referring to the French Foreigners Tax bill German paper says: The moment seems to have arrived for Germany to consider whether all the anti-German measures which are being carried out in France should not, in
 
 many, especially in Alsace-Lorraine.
 England has obtained for her imports into Cuba and Porto Rico the same treatment as is accorded American imports by the Spanish American Convention. The arrangement only operates until the end of the year.
 A Berlin paper says Charles Wyndham is going to that city to play "David Garrick" in German.
 Count Won Munster, German Ambassador to France, has not withdrawn from Paris, and has no intention of doing so.
 A Palestine society is buying pieces of land in Palestine, upon which it is proposed to found Catholic stations.
 Eviction preparations have been made on a large scale in county Wexford, Ireland
 M. Torcheff, the nominee of M. Gambou- Jeff, has been elected president of the Bulgar- ian SobrAnje.
 Minister Phelps's reception in London was attended by 1,7So guests, including the Boston rifle delegates, the Duke of Westminster, Lord and Lady Craw- lie, Mrs. Iabouchere, Mme. Nilsson, Mime. Patti and Mime. Hauk, Miss Fortescue, Grace Hawthorne, Marie Decker Frances Hodgson Burnett, Belle Cole, Mme. Hastreiter and Anna Buckley Hills
 A man named Schimak, who has just been arrested in Mora,ia, has committed six mur- utFs, tuIoo SIcdI IOpptIleb duu uuLlcIUuB thefts. He had in his possession programme for the murder of eighty of the richest inhab- itsnts of Moravia. He had several accomplices, some of whom have bedh arrested.
 --Rioting was renewed in Valencia. The mob fired upon the troops, and the latter re- piled, killing one of the rioters and wounding several others.
 The Sultan having refused to sign the Egyptian treaty. Sir H. D. Wolff has been in- structed to leave Constantinople. The schoolship St. Mary has arrived at Gibraltar.
 The Emperor of Germany arrived at Ems, accompanied by Count Lesendorff He was driven in an open carriage through Bahnhaus- strasse to the Kurhaus. The Bahrhaus-strasse was gaily decorated, and throughout the drive the Emperor was everywhere greeted with the most enthusia tic cheers. The Count of Paris held another reception